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Health-care model flawed
By SID SALTER - Contributing Columnist
Wed,03/01/23-2:00AM , 951 Reads
STARKVILLE — Mississippians have, like citizens in many Southern states, argued for a long time over the question of Medicaid expansion. The arguments run the gamut from financial to moral to philosophical to purely political and usually intensely partisan.
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Carter was end of an era
By SID SALTER - Contributing Columnist
Wed,02/22/23-2:00AM , 886 Reads
STARKVILLE — Like most of the rest of the country, I was saddened to learn over the weekend that former President Jimmy Carter had decided after a prolonged battle with cancer and advancing age to end the fight on his terms and enter hospice care. May God grant him peace and comfort.
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Hosemann ready for a fight
By SID SALTER - Contributing Columnist
Wed,02/08/23-2:00AM , 1209 Reads
STARKVILLE – Back in 2014, Mississippi politicos underestimated tea party zealot Chris McDaniel and it almost resulted in one of the state’s most shocking political upsets. At the outset, most thought McDaniel, a state senator, was taking on then-incumbent Republican U.S. Sen.
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Voters want ballot initiative
By SID SALTER - Contributing Columnist
Wed,02/01/23-2:00AM , 990 Reads
STARKVILLE — Statewide elections will be on the ballot later this year for all eight statewide executive branch offices, all state district offices and for all 174 posts in the Mississippi Legislature in addition to county offices and county district offices in all 82 Mississippi counties, including district and county attorneys.
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